Without Wenyi Ding, Arizona State starts season with win at Sahalee Players
Arizona State Men's Golf team (Arizona State Athletics Photo)
The Sun Devils might have lost 2022 U.S. Junior Amateur champion Wenyi Ding this offseason, but they started the season off strong with a win at the 2024 Sahalee Players Championship at Sahalee Country Club in Sammamish, Wash.
Ding, who left the Sun Devils to pursue other amateur opportunities, is currently ranked No. 6 in the Golfweek/AmateurGolf.com World Rankings. The Sun Devils finished 7-under with rounds of 282-284-291 to finish as the only school under par.
Florida finished in solo second place at 4-over, and Arizona finished in solo third place at 6-over. Pepperdine finished in solo fourth place at 10-over, and Duke finished in solo fifth place at 11-over.
In the individual competition, Aiden Krafft of Oregon came from behind to win by one shot, carding rounds of 71-70-71 to get to 4-under.
2024 U.S. Amateur champion Jose Luis Ballester and Preston Summerhays finished T2 at 3-under, Tiger Christensen of Arizona and Jack Turner of Florida finished T4 at 2-under. Greyson Leach of Oregon and Connor Williams of Arizona State finished T6 at 1-under.
Five golfers finished T8 at even par, and six golfers finished T13 at 1-over.
Summerhays is currently ranked No. 9 in the Golfweek/AmateurGolf.com World Rankings and recently finished T2 at the European Amateur and made the match-play portion of the U.S. Amateur.
Summerhays also won the 2023 Sahalee Players Championship.
In addition to winning the U.S. Amateur in August, he made the match play portion in the British Amateur and T8 at the European Amateur. He is currently ranked No. 17 in the
Golfweek/AmateurGolf.com World Rankings.
ABOUT THE
Sahalee Players Championship
Inaugurated in 1992, the Sahalee Players
Championship (SPC) was a major summer amateur
event until 2019 when it was
discontinued. In 2023, it was converted into a college
event hosting the top men's
teams in the country. Team (best four scores out of five
players each round) and
individual competitions.
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